- Born
- Height5′ 4¼″ (1.63 m)
- Sibel Kekilli is a German actress of Turkish origin. With her debut in Fatih Akin's movie "Head On" she gained major public attention. The film won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival 2004 and her acting performance received several national and international prizes, among them the highly prestigious German film award Lola for Best Actress.
Since then Kekilli played in several national and international productions like "Eve Dönüs" ("Home coming"), awarded Best Actress at the Antalya Film Festival, aside with Josef Bierbichler and Hanna Schygulla in "Winter Journey" ("Winterreise) or the leading role Umay in Feo Aladags "When We Leave" ("Die Fremde") in 2010 which lead to Best Actress Award at the Tribeca Film Festival and once again the Lola award among others.
Apart from other movie roles, as the very successful comedy "What a man" (2011) directed by Matthias Schweighöfer, she has been investigating in the highly regarded German series "Tatort" since 2010.
She has also become widely known as part of the main cast for her role as Shae in the HBO award-winning series "Game of Thrones" (Season 1 until Season 4).
- IMDb mini biography by: Andres DeFranco
- Spouse?(May 23, 2026 - present)
- RelativesSibling(Sibling)
- Has a binovular (fraternal) twin sister.
- Resides in Hamburg, Germany.
- Was an actress for adult content before her breakthrough role in Head-On (2004). Following her success, the German tabloid BILD discovered that she had acted in several porn videos. Because of the media attention that was caused by it, during her acceptance speech at the 2004 Bambi Awards, she protested against the intense coverage of her past career. She reproached the tabloids BILD and Kölner Express for "media rape".
- She held various odd jobs--including a municipal waste department employee and a nightclub manager--before breaking into the film industry.
- Is of Turkish descent.
- It's not my passion to wake up at 6:00 in the morning to do my exercises. Sometimes I really hate it. I'm lazy.
- If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.
- I'd like to say it is only average people who revel in the mistakes of others.
- I have to make sure I don't eat too much chocolate. You can't imagine how hard that is for a German to not eat chocolate.
- Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.
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